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Lolita in the afterlife : on beauty, risk, and reckoning with the most indelible and shocking novel of the twentieth century Cover Image Book Book

Lolita in the afterlife : on beauty, risk, and reckoning with the most indelible and shocking novel of the twentieth century

Quigley, Jenny Minton, 1971- (editor.).

Summary: "A vibrant collection of sharp and essential modern pieces on the perennially controversial Lolita, by a wide range of celebrated writers, edited by the daughter of Lolita's original publisher"--

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  • ISBN: 9781984898838
  • ISBN: 1984898833
  • ISBN: 9781984898845
  • Physical Description: print
    xxxvii, 413 pages ; 21 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2021]

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General Note:
"A Vintage Books original" -- title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note: Witness for the defense: my father and Lolita / Emily Mortimer -- Véra and Lo / Stacy Schiff -- On the road with Humbert and Lolita / Ian Frazier -- Ugly beautiful / Roxane Gay -- Badge of honor / Susan Choi -- Watching the detective / Laura Lippman -- Lolita diary / Alexander Chee -- Delectatio Morosa / Lauren Groff -- Lolita, #MeToo, and myself / Morgan Jerkins -- Lolita, Chamonix, France, 2018 / Andre Dubus III -- The showgirl who discovered Lolita / Sarah Weinman -- Fashion's Lolita; fragile, subversive, and a paean to white femininity / Robin Givhan -- Lolita and the Empathetic Imagination / Jim Shepard -- How Lolita freed me from my own Humbert / Bindu Bansinath -- Ladies and gentlemen of the jury / Christina Baker Kline -- Charmed / Victor LaValle -- They stay the same age / Sloane Crosley -- Dear Sugar / Cheryl Strayed -- What we talk about when we talk about Lolita / Lila Azam Zanganeh -- Nabokov's rocking chair: Lolita at the movies / Tom Bissell -- Lo and behold / Jill Kargman -- Acquiring Lolita's language / Aleksandar Hemon -- Charlotte's complaint / Jessica Shattuck -- Lolita in the time of trigger warnings / Erika L. Sánchez -- Maison Nymphette / Kate Elizabeth Russell -- A living story of Lolita in Iraq / Zainab Salbi -- The lollipop room / Kira von Eichel -- The anti-monster / Claire Dederer -- Lolita in lockdown / Dani Shapiro -- I cannot get out said the starling / Mary Gaitskill.

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Subject: Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich 1899-1977
Lolita (Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich) Lolita (Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich)
Genre: Literary criticism.
Essays.
Literary criticism.
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